My friend D, who had had kidlet #2 about 7 months prior to Ringo’s birthday, told me that, amongst other things, the second time around she felt more motivated to get back to her pre-pregnancy shape.

So true.

I was so eager to start working out, or at least do more than neighborhood/dog park walks, my 6 week postpartum appointment couldn’t come soon enough.

It was around then (6 weeks post…) when I re-discovered the c25k running program. A 9-week program that’s designed to get one running 5k (or 30 minutes) in 9 weeks. I had tried to follow it before, but thanks to the iPhone app, I don’t need to keep looking at my watch, while trying to remember if I was supposed to walk for 3 minutes or run for 8.

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m about 5 weeks into the program and holding my own.

Though I’m really, very eager to get the poundage off and get back into a healthier shape, I gave myself an easy goal: run a 5k Thanksgiving weekend. To keep me motivated for this run, I’ve enlisted The Husband and Da Brah to run it with me.

The latest running workout was…daunting, to say the least. After weeks of alternating between running and walking, time came to run for 20 minutes…straight. For some reason, I thought I wasn’t ready for it, but I am happy to report that it really wasn’t so bad. Not bad at all. To keep me moving for 20 minutes, I focused on my posture, I focused on my breathing, I focused on my core (envisioning some sort of abdominal definition) and I focused on my motivation for all this fitness – Peanut and Ringo. I keep telling myself that if I take care of myself now, they won’t have to take as much care of me later on. Who knows if it’ll end up like that, but at least there is some truth to it.

So this running thing is nice and all, but I also need to work on overall fitness as well. Luckily, soon after I returned to work, HR was announced a 10-week summer fitness program. HR had contracted with a personal trainer to come and…well, train. A little bit of everything: cardio, strength, balance. The best part of all this is that my company is reimbursing me 75% of the cost when I complete the program! (I have to attend at least 6 sessions to be qualify for reimbursement.) I’m two weeks into that program and it has already twice handed me my ass on a platter.

The next session is tomorrow afternoon, so I expect to be completely sore on Friday. But it’s a good thing, right?

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